Around 800 miners in Zagazig staged a sit in on Sunday, accusing the Sharqiya province governor of not paying them their bonuses for three years. The miners threatened to descend on Cairo, and demonstrate in front of Mubarak’s house, if their demands are not met within 10 days.
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Doweiqa residents protest house demolitions
Dozens of residents of el-Doweiqa slum in Cairo demonstrated yesterday in front of the Ministry of Housing, after police demolished their homes without compensations or alternative housing.
Police clash with Giza protesters: 1 killed, 20 wounded
From AP:
Gunfire broke out Thursday between police and protesters opposed to construction of a cell phone tower south of Giza, and one man was killed and 20 people were wounded, authorities said.
Several thousand residents of Kafr Turk, a town about 19 miles south of Cairo’s twin city of Giza, had gathered to protest an attempt by Orascom Telecom–the owner of the MobiNil cell phone company operator in Egypt–to erect the tower in the area.